Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Cows
Catalogue no. 317
1938
Lancieux, Brittany, France
Oil on canvas
23 x 28 in. (58.4 x 71.1 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson"
Dated top left: "1938"
Inscribed bottom right: "LANCIEUX"
Dated top left: "1938"
Inscribed bottom right: "LANCIEUX"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Lancieux, Brittany, September 5 (journal). Letter to his father from Lancieux, September 6,
1938, "I made my dÈbut as a cattle-painter yesterday when I painted a cow-piece of 5 cows from 3 models."
Provenance
Sheldon Dick
Artist
Private collection
Michael or Gilbert Scharf
Scharf Family Collection
Exhibition History
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Drawings, Edwin W. Dickinson, December 11– 23, 1939.
Monomoy Theatre, Chatham, Massachusetts, Work by Edwin Dickinson, August 11–18, 1942, as "Cows, Lancieux".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
Institute of Contemporary Art and the Weeden Gallery, 1970.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson Retrospective, August 14–September 7, 1976.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
New York Studio School, New York, Founding Faculty of the New York Studio School, [September-October] 1986.
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Edwin Dickinson, Wallace Putnam and Richard Maury, June 16–July 2, 1992.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Cows, 1938 (Catalogue no. 317)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=317 (accessed on July 23, 2026).